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INVENTORS F I G. 23 JACK H. TERRY H JOHN A. DIMOND BY ARMISTEAD WHARTON "MAW A. m %"'f 44 ATTORNE s Oct. 27, 1970 J. H. TERRY ETAL TRANSACTION RECORDING APPARATUS AND SYSTEM 19 Sheets-Sheet 19 Filed 'Oct. 25, 1967 F2300 .rZEl mmmmzlxmk wads. 4(2139 IUPDJU unfit. 22E301 ZOrrUZDm 23m 02m was 4 zmnowuh dzoomm INV NT JACK H. TERREY 0R8 JOHN A. DI MOND BY ARMISTEAD WI IARTON MAJ ATTORNEYS United States Patent 3,536,395 TRANSACTION RECORDING APPARATUS AND SYSTEM Jack H. Terry and John A. Dimond, Pittsford, and Armistead Wharton, Henrietta, N.Y., assignors to Xerox Corporation, Rochester, N.Y., a corporation of New ABSTRACT OF THE DISCLOSURE Apparatus for recording business transactions as permanent visual records of credit or cash sales and as an optical input for computer processing of merchandise and accounts receivable control information. A composite image is formed of information assembled on a platen board which is positioned at a first exposure station in the recording apparatus where it is scanned for projection onto a moving photoreceptor and information from a data projector which is positioned at a second exposure sta tion. A logic circuit controls the information display in timed relation to the movement of the photoreceptor. Information imaged by the display is supplied via a keyboard on the control panel of the recording apparatus.

This invention relates to data capturing and, more particularly, to novel apparatus for recording business transactions as permanent visual records of credit or cash sales and as an optical input for computer processing of merchandise and accounts receivable control information.

Today, as never before, retailing businesses are experiencing a tremendous volume of individual transactions. In department store purchases for example, it is common for customers to charge or pay cash for 3 or 4 items at least once a week. Normally the store clerk prepares a sales slip by manually inscribing the sale information onto a form sheet, a carbon copy of which becomes the customer receipt. In the case of a charge, a credit card is inserted with the sales slip in a manually operated pressure printing device for recording the customer information (name, address and account number). After the sales check is prepared it is then processed, for the most part manually, through various groups of store personnel for inventory and accounts receivable control. As can readily be appreciated a tremendous volume of individual transcriptions exists for even a small business concern.

With the advent of electronic data processing equipment, it is desirable to utilize one or more computer memories as multiple sales accounting journals and ledgers. Various attempts have been made to combine sales and accounting information at the point of sale into some form of machine readable input data but none have been entirely satisfactory.

One technique at capturing merchandise data at the point of sale has been by print punch price tickets. As a unit of merchandise is sold, a ticket is stubbed and placed onto a spindle holder. At the end of the day, the tickets are taken to a central location where they are converted to magnetic tape for processing into a computer. While this system has certain merit, it has been found that ticket collection is not complete resulting in inaccurate data acquisition.

Still another technique has been to use paper tape punch devices attached to a cash register. Each punched paper tape shows beginning and ending dollar accumulation for all sales data registered for the day. This must then be converted into machine readable language. Normally, the paper tape does not include accounts receivable information which must now be completed manually.

In accordance with the present invention, data capturing at the point of sale is provided by a novel transaction recorder which produces a machine readable input journal tape for automatic processing of both merchandise inventory control and accounts receivable information. More than this, high quality readable copies are produced for customer and business use rapidly and accurately with predominantly fixed information which minimizes human error at the point of sale where it is most likely to occur.

It is therefore an object of this invention to improve recording apparatus.

It is another object of this invention to enable data capturing for accounting and merchandise inventory control.

It is another object of this invention to compute and record sales transactions more accurately and rapidly than heretofore with a minimum of effort by sales clerks.

It is another object of this invention to produce automatically multiple high quality permanent readable records of a completed sales transaction at the point of sale.

Still another object of the invention is to produce a journal tape record of sales transactions at the point of sale adapted for automatic computer processing of merchandise control and accounts receivable information.

For a better understanding of the invention as well as other objects and further features thereof, reference is bad to the following detailed description of the invention to be read in connection with the accompanying drawings, wherein:

FIG. 1 is a left-hand perspective view of the recording apparatus of the invention;

FIG. 2 is an enlarged view of keyboard section of the apparatus;

FIG. 3 is a schematic view of the keyboard coding matrix circuit for converting keyed information into binary coded digital information;

FIG. 4 is a simplified block diagram in accordance with the principles of the invention;

FIG. 5 is a side section view of the recording apparatus illustrating details of components in the copying section;

FIG. 6 is an end view of the recording apparatus with housing broken away;

FIG. 7 illustrates a typical cut sheet copy and journal tape produced from the recording apparatus.

FIG. 8 is a perspective view of the order board.

FIG. 9 is a top plan view of the order board;

FIGS. 9AA-9FF are sections of FIG. 9 taken along lines indicated in FIG. 9;

FIG. 10 is a bottom plan view of the order board illustrating details of the ticket ejection assembly;

FIG. 10a is a plan view illustrating details of the order board slide members;

FIGS. 11, 12 and 13 are top, side, and end views, respectively, of the order board carriage assembly, parts of which are shown in section;

FIG. 14 illustrates the scan drive mechanism for the carriage assembly;

FIG. 15 is a sectional View of the scan drive mechamsm;

FIGS. 16a, 16b, 16c and 16d illustrate similar views of portions of the scan drive mechanism in scan operation sequence;

FIGS. 17 and 18 are side and end views, respectively, of the journal tape transport assembly;

FIG. 19 is an enlarged sectional view of the clutching arrangement for the journal tape assembly taken along line 19-19 of FIG. 17; 

